Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Allies during the World War, and declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed him as an ardent cricketer, who, when he could no longer bowl, field or run, continued to bat and had someone...
...With this journalistic naivete a pressman described the match between William M. Johnton and Brian I. C. Norton at the Newport Casino. No epigram could have summed it up as neatly. Johnston, since he already won the tournament on two previous years gained permanent possession of the Casino silver bowl, valued...
...Engraven on the bowl are the names of Ichaya Kumagae (1916), R. Norris Williams (1917), William T. Tilden (1919), Clarence J. Griffin (1920), Howard Kinsey...
...champion. Johnston's accuracy, in his heyday, was doubtless superior to that of the Israelite champion, but they both made the same appeal to a gallery-the appeal of skill, of courage, hazardously sustained by slight flesh. In 1921, 1922 and 1923, Johnston won the Seabright Lawn Tennis Bowl. Last week he got off a train from Chicago and within four hours began to play against Dr. George King of Manhattan. Dr. King is no Goliath -in fact, he is placed at No. 12 in the national ranking, but he was dazed by neither the slimness nor the prestige...
...thought sophisticates, "he will exaggerate." And truly it would have been easy, in the blue evening, to misgage the acoustics of the gargantuan Bowl. But Sir Henry, wiser than his critics, made his effects as precisely as if he had been in a concert hall; brilliantly he conducted a rare Andante of Mozart's, an unfamiliar suite by Pur- cell, the first Los Angeles performance of three movements from The Planets by Gustav Hoist. Sir Henry had been encouraged to give some modern English music; he chose Ethel Smyth's On the Cliffs of Cornwall, a scene from...